At around 3 p.m. on Monday, Erin Wilson stopped at a picnic area along Highway 299. She began walking her two-year-old sheepdog, Eva, along a path when a mountain lion ______ and attacked Wilson, who screamed—catching the ______ of her 2-year-old Belgian Malinois. Eva, who had been wandering ahead, immediately returned to ______ her owner. The mountain lion then ______ on the 55-pound dog and bit onto the bodyguard’s head. Wilson ______ without success to fight off the lion with stones, so she ran up to the road, frantically trying to flag someone down.

Sharon Houston, who was driving by, saw Wilson and ______. After learning about the mountain lion attack, without ______ Houston jumped out of her car with her pepper spray (喷雾剂) and also grabbed a stick. The two women ______ to the scene in the forest, where the struggle was going on, with the mountain lion still ______ to let go of the dog. They both started hitting it and yelling ______ it finally set loose the bleeding dog.

Eva eventually ______. Houston pepper sprayed the mountain lion in the face, and it immediately turned away and ______. Eva was gravely injured, and Wilson ______ drove Eva to a vet (兽医). After spending several days there, the dog was ______. Now Eva, lying on her own bed with her favorite toys, is on the road to ______. “My dog is my hero and I owe her my life,” Wilson said.